Top 100 In Fear Quotes
#1. Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.
Barnabas
#2. Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
Peter Hook
#3. The Prince was staring at me strangely. No man had looked at me that way. Men had looked at me in admiration, in fear, in lust. They'd looked at me with disbelief at who I was. He looked at me with disbelief at who I could be.
Roshani Chokshi
#4. I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.
Craig Ferguson
#5. Is it harder to dream about what you don't have, than to live in fear of losing what you do?
Barbara Delinsky
#6. There is a difference between needy and helpless. While doling out free benefits to the needy is condemnable, the helpless must be assisted to get their lives back on track. No one should be living in fear or under oppressive conditions.
Sumit Agarwal
#7. Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.
Noel DeJesus
#8. But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans.
Caitlin Moran
#9. As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs ...
Marian Keyes
#10. Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.
Anne Waldman
#11. To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles
#12. Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?
Steve Buscemi
#13. Sweetheart, Is today the day you run away alone in fear? Or the day you have the balls to trust in our friendship? Trust in the four of us. Together
Scarlett Dawn
#14. Do not feel fear because if you live your life in fear you're not living your hiding.
Salman Aditya
#15. I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.
Ellen DeGeneres
#16. There were many reasons why I chose to stay silent about my past for so long, mostly fear and shame. Now im older and wiser.Now I understand that I should never have to live in fear of another human being, and if I do, that's their shame, not mine.
Gabriella Gillespie
#17. The second you believe in hell, you're undermining everything good because a morality based in fear can only bring out the worst in people and never their best.
David Ellis Dickerson
#18. People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.
Janette Oke
#19. Because you brand our tongues
with silence. Because you watch us
in fear, even while we sing.
Eric Gamalinda
#20. Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
Anne Rice
#21. The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
Peter Lewis Allen
#22. Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
Olivia Wilde
#24. Author C. S. Lewis wrote a beautiful and accurate definition of humility: "Humility is not thinking less of yourself ... it is thinking of yourself less." "It is about feeling safe so you can focus on other people. It is not about being in fear and seeing yourself as worthless!
Kimberly Giles
#25. You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.
Bernhard Goetz
#26. His fingers caressed the column of my tense throat. I shivered in fear. I hated not being able to see what was happening, it forced me to feel everything.
C.J. Roberts
#27. The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.
Deepak Chopra
#28. 'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
Jeff Hawkins
#29. It's better to die pursuing your dreams and destiny, than to live a life in fear of failure.
Jeanette Coron
#30. It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
Michel De Montaigne
#31. Don't assume anything. You don't have to live your life in fear, but know what's around you. Be smart. Don't go blindly into dark alleys or parking lots.
Richelle Mead
#32. Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#33. It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
Denis Diderot
#34. There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.
Marc MacYoung
#35. She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.
Anthony Liccione
#36. One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.
Fethullah Gulen
#37. Torture is senseless violence, born in fear ... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#38. You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how to write a novel. But what you know is the novel you just wrote. You don't have the slightest notion how to write the one you're going to do next.
Wallace Stegner
#39. I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
Simon Cowell
#40. It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity.
Philip Massinger
#41. I assume that if God is anything like Jesus, then living in fear is a waste of time.
Tripp Fuller
#42. Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
Jack Kornfield
#43. The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that Word to go on becoming flesh.
N. T. Wright
#44. Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.
Liz Johnson
#45. Marketa pressed her hand against her stinging cheek. She was too stunned to cry, for her mother had never struck her before. She looked at her twin sisters, whose faces blanched, and they clutched each other in fear.
Linda Lafferty
#46. We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.
Stephanie Beacham
#47. despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown.
Nick Vujicic
#49. When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are lin love, there is no room for fear.
Wayne W. Dyer
#50. The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.
Daniel Willey
#52. Beck must have seen how frightened she was because his expression softened. He leaned close, and whispered, "Do ya trust me, Riley?"
Tears built in her eyes.
"Yes," she whispered, trembling in fear. Always.
"Then it'll be all right," he replied. Beck gently placed a kiss on her forehead.
Jana Oliver
#53. Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.
Lauren Groff
#54. When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!
Yuri Gagarin
#55. If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.
Franz Kafka
#56. Hate and love were both conceived in fear, perhaps that was why they were nearly the same thing, but only one was steeped in hope.
D. Morgenstern
#58. People live in fear of bad being out to get them, when in reality, the bad side is there only to be in polar opposite proportion to the positive that you are destined to thrive in. Conquer the negative, and thrive in the positive.
C. JoyBell C.
#59. Live the life you wish to, date the man you wish to date, and stop looking to your family for affirmation for the choices that you make. Life is full of risks. You can't live your life in fear of how people will judge you for following your dreams.
David Sullivan
#60. I'm not one to hide anything, but I don't feel the need to comment directly on [my relationships] ... I think it would be a shame to not live in the moment and not enjoy everything that's happening in fear of other people's opinions.
Lily Collins
#62. The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Horace
#63. The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.
Khalil Gibran
#64. But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.
Tamera Alexander
#65. Reseph had never been cruel or callous,
had lived in fear of succumbing to his evil side. And if he was that bad now that his Seal had been broken ... Ares was screwed.
Larissa Ione
#66. Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Confucius
#67. You gotta trust someone sometime. They're either gonna f**k you over or they're not. Can't live in fear, and all that, or you'll miss out.
Darien Cox
#68. They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
Seneca.
#69. Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.
Steve Maraboli
#70. Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.
Caroline Myss
#71. It's a tough universe kid. Dirty. Vicious. What the Empire doesn't screw up directly the rest of us screw up in fear of, or anger at, the Empire.
Simon Goodson
#72. 8He is ever present with me; at all times He goes before me. I will not live in fear or abandon my calling because He stands at my right hand. 9This is a good life - my heart is glad, my soul is full of joy, and my body is at rest. Who could want for more?
Anonymous
#73. I lived in fear for decades. I learned that you can't wait around for it to go away before you make your move, only when you make your move will the fear leave.
Toni Sorenson
#74. Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread. -
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.
Mary Shelley
#75. They'd get that back; when children no longer lived in fear and privation, the ability to hope was one of the first things to return. From
Mercedes Lackey
#76. I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
Dolly Parton
#77. When you function in love, your inside creates your outside. When you function in fear, your outside creates your inside.
Drunvalo Melchizedek
#78. A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.
Aesop
#79. I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I wrest from nature excellence in letters.
Lisa See
#80. There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear ...
Jim Butcher
#81. Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.
Martin Luther
#82. No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.
Tupac Shakur
#83. I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.
Gilda Radner
#84. I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
Michael Gambon
#85. OBI-WAN Forsooth, a great disturbance in the Force Have I just felt. 'Twas like a million mouths Cried out in fear at once, and then were gone, All hush'd and quiet - silent to the last. I fear a stroke of evil hath occurr'd. But thou, good Luke, thy practice recommence.
Ian Doescher
#86. At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as a Christian leader I deeply respect your faith and believe that our common duty is to extend the hand of friendship, and to build bridges not walls.
George Carey
#87. God is the reason why even in pain, I smile. In confusion, I understand. In betrayal, I trust. And in fear, I continue to fight. -Bella Swan
Stephenie Meyer
#88. The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
George Eliot
#89. I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.
Sean Combs
#90. I refuse to cut the joy from the lives of others in fear I might lose my own. Only the former is definite, and may be controlled. The latter is up to fate.
Penelope Fletcher
#91. There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. It's no way to live, in fear of living in case of pain
Maya Banks
#93. In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson
#94. Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. We're never a hundred percent in control in life, Nina. We just think we are. Something bigger than us is always in the driver's seat. What we can control is our perception, our reactions to things. We can also control whether we choose to live life or live in fear.
Penelope Ward
#96. America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.
Anneli Rufus
#97. I love you,' he said. His voice shook with effort. 'I love you so much, it's like my whole life was just leading up to the moment I met you. And then as soon as I did, I lived in fear, every day, that you would be taken from me.' He looked down. 'I just never thought you'd be the one to do it.
Jocelyn Davies
#98. There is no shame in fear, Orgrim and Durotan. Only in letting fear prevent you from doing the right thing.
Christie Golden
#99. You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
David Deida
#100. To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
